LLILAS Benson News Archive

Tue, Nov 1, 2016

LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections presents its signature event of the fall semester, "Ernesto Cardenal in Word and Action: Poetry, Politics, and Priesthood in 20th-Century Nicaragua.”

Wed, Oct 5, 2016

LLILAS Benson presents the seventh annual Field Notes student photography exhibition, featuring images from Latin America and US Latina/o communities by students from a diverse range of disciplines at The University of Texas at Austin.

Wed, Sep 14, 2016

Thu, Sep 8, 2016

Matthew Butler, an associate professor in the Department of History and LLILAS affiliated faculty, has received an Endangered Archives Programme grant of $66,000 to support a project titled “Conserving Indigenous Memories of Land Privatisation in Mexico: Michoacán’s Libros de Hijuelas, 1719–1929.”

Wed, Aug 31, 2016

The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant of $248,039 to Susan Smythe Kung and Anthony C. Woodbury in support of their upcoming project, "Transforming Access and Archiving for Endangered Language Data Through Exploratory Methodologies of Curation."

Thu, May 5, 2016

The Capstone seminar brings together central issues, concepts, and themes of contemporary Latin American studies. The class is designed as a professional development course to enhance core analytical and writing skills that will be useful for students after graduation.

Mon, Apr 18, 2016

Like most second-year master’s students, Jheison Romain has been hard at work writing his thesis. But like many of the activist that are his peers here, Romain has also spent time on a cause about which he is passionate.

Thu, Mar 24, 2016

Thu, Mar 3, 2016

Professor of History Ann Twinam, a LLILAS faculty associate, has won the Latin American Studies Association’s Bryce Wood Book Award for Purchasing Whiteness: Pardos, Mulattos and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies (Stanford, 2015). The award is given at each LASA congress to an outstanding book on Latin America in the social sciences and humanities published in English.

Fri, Jan 29, 2016

LLILAS welcomes two Tinker visiting professors to campus this spring. Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj and Ruud van Akkeren will each teach a graduate seminar while pursuing research and collaboration with colleagues at UT Austin.

Tue, Jan 19, 2016

Raúl Madrid, professor in the UT Department of Government and affiliated faculty member at the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS), is a candidate for vice president (and president-elect) of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), the principal association of scholars who work on Latin America.

Tue, Jan 12, 2016

The LLILAS spring 2016 catalogue offers courses in Maya thought, colonialism and indigenous languages, gender and politics of indigenous peoples, and the Nahuatl language. Courses are open to registered students.